Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allow our policies to be attacked with impunity by our opponents without reply would lead to inevitable defeat . . . One of the reasons the Republican Party is in trouble today is because, over the past two years particularly, we have allowed people to criticize our policies and we have not stood up and answered effectively. That is a mistake. I don't intend to make that mistake in this campaign...
Anxious to please, Vag selected the ones indicated, observing the Oxford Street address of King George's own bootmaker. After much straining, the boots went on. Panting, Vag stood up, trying to erase the imprint of the boot heel from his shirt...
...maze of stamp-sized, undermechanized, undercapitalized farms. Its top crop is tobacco (more than half the U.S. output), which exhausts the soil, brings small profits to the farmer. North Carolina's manufacturing is largely in textiles, a low-wage, boom-or-bust industry. Among the states, North Carolina stood No. i in the number of farm residents (1.4 million), No. 48 in the average weekly earnings of manufacturing workers ($47.88). It was clear to Hodges what North Carolina needed. "We had to get our farmers to diversify, to go into other businesses. But where were they...
...Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times's index stood at 205.4, only 7.9 points below the alltime high of July 1955. Transactions in a single day totaled 16,599,000 shares, highest in 17 months. The trigger was Britain's resoundingly successful effort since 1957 to protect the pound by raising interest rates, which has increased gold and dollar reserves...
...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...